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Patented Nov. 27, 1894.

I A Z A X .NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ALBERT L. SWETT, OF MEDINA,'NEW YORK.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 529,971, dated November 2'7, 1 894. Applicationi'iled dune 11,1894. 86.1.1110. 614,179. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. SWETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Medina,

in the county of Orleans and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of door hangers in which anti-friction rollers are interposed between the hanger frame and the axle of the supporting wheel.

The object of my invention is to provide a door hanger of this character in which the rollers arereliably supported and prevented from running unevenly.

In the accompanping drawings consisting of two sheets: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved door hanger. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section thereof, in line 2-2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are perspective views of the frame, inclosing hood, and carrier plates, of the door hanger. Fig. 6 is a vertical cross section of a modification of my improved door hanger. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal horizontal section thereof in line 7-7 Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the anti-friction rollers and carrier plates shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

Fig. 9 is a vertical cross section of another modified form of my improved door hanger. Fig. 10 isa horizontal section thereof, in line 10-10, Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is a perspective view of the anti-friction rollers and the carrier'dew vices shown in Figs. 9 and 10.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures. A represents the horseshoe-shaped frame of the door hanger secured with its curved lower portion to the door a and having its upwardly projecting arms a bent rearwardly and downwardly so as to form hangers a which are arranged parallel with the arms a.

B represents a hood or cover inclosing the upper portion of the frame and provided with depending side portions 1), b, which are secured respectively to the upper front portions of the arms a and to the rear sides of the hangers a and which form outer carrier plates.

0 0' represent inner carrier plates arranged parallel with the outer carrier plates 1) b and secured with their ends respectively,

to the rear sides of the arms a and the front sides of the hangers a D represents the supporting wheel arranged between the inner carrier plates and running on a rail d secured to the adjacent wall. This wheel is rigidly secured to a transverse axle d which is arranged with its ends in vertical slots f f formed in the inner and outer carrier plates.

G represents anti-friction rollers, a pair of which is arranged between each inner carrier plate and the adjacent outer carrier plate. The rollers of each pair bear with the lower adjacent portions of their faces against the upper side of the axle of the supporting wheel. Each anti-friction wheel is jonrnaled upon a transverse axle or arbor g which is secured with its ends to the inner and outer carrier plates on opposite sides of the respective anti-friction roller. v

This construction of a door hanger is very strong and forms a reliable support for each anti-friction roller, on opposite sides thereof, thereby preventing the same from tipping and running unevenly.

In the modified construction of my door hanger represented in Figs. 6, 7 and 8 the outer ends of the arbors of the anti-friction rollers are secured to outer carrier plates H which are made separate from the hood and secured between the hangers and arms and the hood, the latter being arranged on the outer sides of the outer carrier plates and provided with vertical slots which receive the ends of the wheel axle. 'If desired the outer ends of the arbors of the anti-friction wheels may be supported by hangers or brackets I secured with their lower ends to said arbors and with their upper ends to the inner carrier plates, as represented in Figs. 9, l0 and 11. These hangers or brackets thus form the outer carriers or carrier plates of said arbors.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination with the frame, the supporting wheel and its axle, of anti-friction rollers bearing against said axle, inner carrier plates arrangedon opposite sides of said supporting wheel, independent arbors for said anti-friction rollers arranged on opposite sides of said supporting wheel and supported at rier plates and provided with an axle having its end arranged in slots formed in the inner and outer carrier plates, anti-friction rollers arranged between the inner and outer carrier plates and bearing upon said axle and arbors supporting said rollers and secured with opposite ends to the inner and outer carrier plates, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 31st dayof May, 1894.

ALBERT L. SWE'PT.

Witnesses:

ROBERT H. NEWELL, HARRY F. WELTER. 

